JAKARTA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The administration of Bali, Indonesia's premier tourist destination, has set an ambitious goal of becoming free from plastic waste by 2027, a senior official announced on ...

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The strength and effectiveness of governance are crucial not only for driving organizational success, but also ensuring a nation's continued competitiveness, a ...

ASTANA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Cultural and people-to-people exchanges are nurturing the friendship between Kazakhstan and China and injecting fresh momentum into bilateral ties, Kazakh Minister of ...

CHANGSHA, June 16 (Xinhua) -- An explosion at a fireworks factory in central China's Hunan Province on Monday had left one person dead, six missing and nine injured as of 5 p.m., local authorities ...

ISLAMABAD, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Monday that remittances from overseas Pakistanis remained a cornerstone of the national economy and brought prosperity.

NEW DELHI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- At least 1,300 shops were gutted in a devastating fire Monday at a marketplace in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. However, no loss of life or ...

Noting "a rapidly changing international environment," NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui said that China's economy has demonstrated strong resilience and vitality, backed by government efforts to expand ...

HANOI, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam's National Assembly on Monday passed the amended Employment Law, granting workers broader access to preferential loans and expanding unemployment insurance coverage, ...

CHANGSHA, China, June 16 (Xinhua) -- The strong and practical relations between Rwanda and China are "positively impacting the Rwandan population," said Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe.

Johan Swinnen, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), highlighted key milestones from IFPRI's 50 years of work in global food policy research. He said the global ...

BUCHAREST, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Romanian national airline TAROM announced on Monday the extension of its commercial flight suspension to and from Tel Aviv (TLV), Beirut (BEY), and Amman (AMM), citing ...

SYDNEY, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Australian researchers have created a non-invasive artificial intelligence (AI) system that decodes brainwaves into text using a 128-electrode electroencephalogram (EEG) ...